[dusted]

Yeah, I run my own, but thing is, I don't have a RIGHT to do so, I am just lucky that my ISP most mercifully lets me bounce my outgoing mail through their SMTP server, and they blocked outgoing port 25, so that's the only way for me out.

I have some right to the domain on which I host my mail, but I don't have a right to a fixed static IP, and I don't have a right to be able to make outgoing connections on port 25 (or any port, I guess?), and I also don't have a right to a bouncer, so in practice, I don't have a right to host my own mail, there's no law giving me the right to demand any of those things, it's up to me to be a combination of lucky and wealthy enough to make it happen.

[mattl]

Did they block port 993? Port 443? Port 80?

[dusted]

Those ports are not important, they are for my client to connect to my server, which happens entirely within my LAN, but how do I go about SENDING mail if outgoing connections on ports 25, 587, and 465 are blocked ?

Basically, I want to send a mail to you, your server is listening on those ports because you're a normal person, and didn't rediret port 80 to be your SNMP incoming.

So, I try to make a connection to your domain:25, my packets won't even leave my ISP, my outgoing connection is simply dropped.

Try it, are you lucky enough that you can ? If you speak a bit of SMTP you can send email from telnet like that.

[mattl]

You can configure your own SMTP server on the internet to listen on whatever ports you like and configure your client to use that.